Iran developing Electronic Warfare to kill U.S., Israeli attacks

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Iran’s Defense Ministry and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps are overseeing development of electronic warfare equipment and methods to overcome Western military superiority.

“Electronic warfare (EW) could be used to deny the enemy’s knowledge of our combat deployment as well as confuse its assets in the sky,” an Iranian official said.

EW capability was tested in Iran’s latest exercise, Samen Hojaj, which ended Nov. 22. In it, the IRGC and the regular military tested systems intended to jam Israeli and U.S. unmanned aerial vehicles and fixed-wing reconnaissance platforms.

The exercise reportedly marked the first time the Air Defense Command operated in total communications silence. Officials said this was designed to deny Western adversaries the capability to detect and target Iran’s surface-to-air missile batteries.

“The goal was to test the coordination, speed and precision of air defense units working either independently or as part of an integrated command and control network,” said military spokesman Col. Abu Fazel Sepehri.

Infantry combat forces also conducted night operations under radio silence. Results from this and other maneuvers were deemed encouraging and EW countermeasures are expanded to be expanded.

The latest exercise began with a massive air defense maneuver based in Khatam Anbia on Nov. 17. The maneuver included the use of shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles to protect against low-flying enemy helicopters and UAVs.

Officials said IRGC also plans to amass a huge ground force to repel any invasion. The commander of the IRGC-sponsored Basij force, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Reza Naqdi, said his paramilitary unit would recruit up to 100 million Muslims from around the world.

I actually cannot envision any scenario short of an Iranian attack by ground forces on the USA which would result in an American invasion of Iran.

Any direct action which killed americans in america, or damaged our society and way of life would far more likely get the cheap, effective and complete, 20 minute solution, than involve us in a war in which ten of thousands of american casualties would result, a decade would be soaked up, a trillion dollars wasted, and another nation would have to be built.